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Turn Your Freelance Business Into An Agency And Close Better Deals

Starting a freelance business can be pretty rough

Just like starting a company, switching from a day job to the freelance world can be difficult and scary at the beginning. Plus, there’s an added problem: The fact that you’re on your own. While startups are the result of a collaboration between two or three partners, usually with different skills and responsibilities, as a freelancer, it’s just you and your computer. You’re the person in charge of accounting, sales, marketing, making coffee, and actually delivering projects to your clients.

As soon as you start working with your first clients, you’ll notice one thing: Companies tend to undervalue freelancers because they look at them from a position of power. An organization versus an individual. David vs Goliath. They don’t usually see it as a business-to-business relationship, and payments will look more like a salary to them, rather than a client-company relationship. This usually happens because companies don’t tend to understand the costs of being a freelancer. In their minds, being a freelancer is free, therefore all the money you make from them is pure profit.

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The Complete Remote Work Guide: All You Need to Know to Get Hired

The History of Remote Work

Let’s start from the beginning. If remote work seems like some space aged concept to you that’s only been brought about by the rise of the internet, it’s not. In fact, working from home is what people did through most of history. It’s only since the rise of the industrial revolution in 1760 that it became the norm for people to report to work in a building each day. Throughout most of history people worked as tradesmen or farmers, often working from home. Ancient greeks for instance had professions such as potter or carpenter which would work from home offices and had the opportunity to be near their families. People are naturally wired to work at home, close to their families. And even after the industrial revolution, many Americans were work from home farmers.

Going into an office to work was the thing to do in the 1920’s – the 2000’s. And many people coming of age in those time periods have the in office model as the only world they know. But there’s a coming change. Advances in technology are helping the future shift back to a work from home world. Continue Reading “The Complete Remote Work Guide: All You Need to Know to Get Hired”

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Why Covid-19 Will Accelerate the Growth of Remote Work

Covid-19 will have many lasting effects on the world.  The novel coronavirus disease will be integrated into society and some people will get it each year, much like the flu we are so used to each winter.  It has also ravaged small businesses without having the same effect on larger companies that have deeper pockets to help weather the cashflow storm.  The effects of Covid-19 will truly run deep.

But one type of company did not have its operations affected.  While many scramble to adjust to quarantine orders, companies which were already fully remote like Automattic, makers of WordPress, TodoistWerkington and others quietly maintained business as usual without interruption.  They already have the policies and procedures in place for quarantine.  Continue Reading “Why Covid-19 Will Accelerate the Growth of Remote Work”

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Making the Big Switch: From Corporate to Digital Nomad

If you’ve become tired of the 9-5 grind and have always been a bit of a free spirit, you should seriously consider a switch from a corporate career to a career as a digital nomad. Generally speaking, a digital nomad is a person who works remotely, often while visiting new places. Becoming a digital nomad is a great way to see the world while still making money, but it’ll require a bit of preparation. If you’re planning on making the big move, try the following tips:

First, you’ll need to ensure you have your finances in order. Working as a digital nomad often means living from week to week, especially if you’re freelancing. To this end, save a reasonable amount of money to use as a safety net before you quit your 9-5. Continue Reading “Making the Big Switch: From Corporate to Digital Nomad”

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Event: Running Remote Conference 2018 in Bali, Indonesia

Running Remote Conference 2018: Build and Scale Your Remote Team to the Next Level

The world’s biggest ever remote work conference will be held in Bali, Indonesia in June 2018

Running Remote 2018 is the world’s biggest Remote Work conference. It is being organized by a HUBUD, one of Forbes’ top 10 co-working spaces on earth.

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10 Companies Hiring For Remote Jobs This Month

2018 is here. 2018 is the year you exit your cubicle and never look back again.

To help you do that, we have manually curated a list of 10 remote jobs you can apply for right now.

Don’t know how to apply for remote jobs? Learn more here.

Want to know where people with remote jobs travel to? Check this out.

Here’s our list. Go get’em! Continue Reading “10 Companies Hiring For Remote Jobs This Month”

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Unplug, Unwind, and Awaken Your Spirit While Working from Home

As a remote worker, you can work from anywhere in the world. You become free to explore the world and gain the ability to re-awaken your inner self. However, many of us tend to spend all day staring at a computer screen. Even though remote work is supposed to make our lives more flexible, the fact of the matter is that many of us are working from home, means working more and burning out. Therefore, it’s important to break free from the online world and simply enjoy the real one away from the computer screen. Continue Reading “Unplug, Unwind, and Awaken Your Spirit While Working from Home”

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Get One Of These Remote Jobs And End 2017 Outside Of Your Cubicle

Remember when you got back to your cubicle after last Christmas break? Depressing, right?

If you promised yourself you would not let that happen again next year, well, you only have a month to go.

But don’t worry, we have manually dug through AngelList’s remote jobs section and hand-picked 10 startups that are currently hiring for non-tech remote positions. Continue Reading “Get One Of These Remote Jobs And End 2017 Outside Of Your Cubicle”

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Busting the Top 5 Myths About Remote Developers

The following is a guest article from our friends at Toptal.

Picture this…

You meet your friend Jeff for lunch. Jeff’s been managing development of a new product and it’s about to be released. He’s pumped.

But the product release isn’t the main thing that’s got Jeff so excited. Instead, Jeff can’t stop raving about his new hire, Luis.

Jeff says Luis is the best software engineer he’s ever had on his team. Luis doesn’t just hit targets others can’t, he creates and hits targets others don’t even see. He’s virtually always available, always accountable, and brings more to the table than anyone Jeff’s ever worked with. And Luis just ‘get’s it’. Continue Reading “Busting the Top 5 Myths About Remote Developers”

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Why Are Digital Nomads Flocking to Chiang Mai?

One of the main benefits of working remotely is that you can do it from anywhere. From an island in Greece to the plains of Mongolia, digital nomads are everywhere. However, there seems to be one place in the world that has a stronger freelance community than any other: Chiang Mai, Thailand. Let’s break down the reasons for this and why you might want to locate your business in the Thai city at some point as well. Continue Reading “Why Are Digital Nomads Flocking to Chiang Mai?”